John Berger Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.
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I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
